Straight Talks With Aunt Emmy on Saving Plans
Isilda asks Aunt Emmy to help Jack and her save regularly and build an emergency fund. Aunt Emmy advises opening a thrift savings account, weekly deposits, earning modest interest, and then gradual investments in bonds or securities with a bank’s guidance. She suggests saving until funds reach double the initial amount before investing and stresses not depleting all savings for risky bets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmy
Isilda
Jack
Hilda
Anne B. Aymes
Buy Purebred Livestock While Prices Are Low Says Farmer
A farmer urges buying purebred stock now as slaughter prices drop for many purebreds. He argues purebreds improve herd quality, milk and butterfat yields, and long-term gains through inherited traits, noting the need to sell scrub stock while prices are favorable.
Time Well Spent Message Encourages Diligence
A McClure Syndicate moral exhortation urges young and middle aged readers to value each day. It contrasts wasted hours with noble effort and warns that time slips away unseen as night falls. The piece calls for straight living and steady steps to ensure a brighter tomorrow.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
How to Solve a Crossword Puzzle From The Journal
The page explains crossword solving rules with numbered clues for horizontal and vertical words. It notes letters fit white spaces only, definitions include abbreviations and obsolete terms, and solutions appear in the next issue.
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Pelaw the Puzgle
Worizontal
When I Was Twenty One by John J Carty
John J Carty recalls early life at Bell Telephone in Boston and a humorous brass plating joke that led to his career. He notes initial hearing challenges amid noisy lines and rises to become a leading figure at American Telephone and Telegraph, shaping telephony with key inventions.
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Telephone Company
John J. Carty
Mr. Carty
Great American Telephone and Telegraph Company
McClure Newspeaper Syndicate
Get Along Without Fork in Abyssinia
An Abyssinian feast description shows eight caravan men seated in a circle as two chieftain’s servants present a sheep. Diners cut meat from the bone, drawing off large pieces with a knife and biting the loose end, creating the illusion the diners risk injuring their noses.
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Abyssinia
University for geniuses and none others
The piece notes that rare Oriental and other abilities tend to reveal themselves early, and asserts that most major inventions and discoveries in science have been made by the young, with exceptions acknowledged. It cites the New York Times perspective on youthful genius and potential.
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New York Times
Fravel by Caravan
Fravel discusses the term caravan and its historic meaning as a group of travelers merchants or pilgrims traveling together for security through deserts or dangerous regions. The note highlights how the word formerly referred to such companies especially in hostile areas.
Club Made Pies Famous in London History
The Rite Cat club met at the Cat and Fiddle in London from 1708 to 1733, kept by Christopher Cat. It popularized pies called kit-cats, giving the club its famed name.
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Rite Cat
London
Christopher Cat
First Grenadier of the Republic Dies in 1800
La Tour d’Auvergne, a French soldier, refused Napoleon’s offer of general rank preferring the title Napoleon gave him, “the first grenadier of the republic.” He was killed in 1800.
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la Tour D'Auvergne
Napoleon
Judy King Moves From Vaudeville To Film Comedy
Judy King, a popular movie comedienne, began as a vaudeville dancer before reaching the West where she left the stage to act in pictures. Her eyes and hair are brown, and she is described as an athlete who loves sports.
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Comedienne
West
Agriculture's Charm and Socratic View on Life
The excerpt asks which pursuit is most delightful for a man’s household and social circle, noting farming’s appeal as it promises comfort for servants, wives, children, and friends. It presents Socrates’ implied stance that agriculture offers superior means of life and fulfillment.
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Socrates
Snakes and Birds Explain Fear in Predation Context
A brief note describes how snakes influence birds and small animals. It states that the instinctive fear these creatures inspire paralyzes the prey, hindering escape from the snake. The text discusses the dynamic in understood terms without embellishment or graphic detail.
Continent and kinship echo in a Detroit News aside
The Detroit News quotes a child Mary and her father discussing continents and the British Isles, noting how the popular use of Continent differs from geologic and geographic classification and ending with a quip about nice people ending up in the same family.
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Papa
Mary
Tam
Detroit News
Sacred Moonstone Believed Sacred in India
The moonstone is believed by many to bring good fortune and is highly sacred in India. It is never gold except on a yellow cloth, with yellow regarded as a specially sacred color according to the New York World.
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India
New York World
Four Unusual Potato Recipes From Famous Cooks
Four distinctive potato dishes from well known chefs are shared. Tamalpais Potatoes use left over potatoes baked in custard cups for a golden crust. Mrs Sarah T. Rorer recommends soaking new potatoes, a slow oven, and no fork to keep skins tender. Margaret Allen Hall presents stuffed potatoes with milk and butter, then browned. Kate Brew Vaughn offers Pittsburgh Potatoes layered with cheese pimento and breadcrumbs in a white sauce.
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Sarah T. Rorer
Philadelphia
Margaret Allen Hall
Battle Creek College of Home Economics
Pittsburgh
Kate Brew Vaughn
Los Angeles
Rosa Michaelis
New Orleans
Sarah Tyson Rober
Lucy G. Allen
Boston
Halle Degraf
San Francisco
Hanle Creeks
Kate B. Vaughin
How the orange became the fruit we know
A study notes that the orange began as a small pear shaped fruit the size of a cherry. Over 1,200 years of cultivation its size and form evolved into the modern orange.
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc
F.A. Walker
McClure Newspape
Arora
Caurea
Rusela
New Jersey City
Kansas City
ISG
ISL
BY Joseph Kaye
Judy King
British Isles
Europe
DE Graf
Waittens
M. K. Newnam
Journal
Peoples Bank
the Peoples Bank
Henry (. Nuttle, Prest
Denton
J. Frank Wright
Ernest G. Cooper Denton, Md
FORD
Studebaker
Denton Auto CO
H. Saulsbury
E. T. Orme
P. R. Fisher
Reo
Hillsboro
Maryland
Pacific Coast
Gulf of Mexico
New England
Lake Michigan
Hey
Miss Allen
Boston School of Cookery
Miss Hall
Mrs. Vaughn
Perfection Stove Company
Cleveland, Ohio
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Broadway
New York
Standard Ofl Co
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